Latest Arkansas Headlines
All the headlines from our Arkansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nominations Sought for New Arkansas Insurance Hall of Fame
Jun 23 2015 // Arkansas insurance industry leaders have established the Arkansas Insurance Hall of Fame (AIHF) and are now taking nominations for its first honorees. The AIHF will be housed within the College of Business at the...
Farmers Introduces Rideshare Insurance Coverage in Arkansas
Jun 15 2015 // Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance has launched Rideshare Insurance Coverage for ride-hailing drivers in Arkansas. Farmers worked with representatives of the Arkansas Insurance Department, legislators and leaders of...
Small Arkansas Town Sued over ‘Money Making’ Traffic Stops
Jun 15 2015 // The tiny town of Concord, Ark., is facing a federal civil-rights lawsuit from drivers who say they were pulled over as part of a money making ploy by police. suit claims that “over a period of several years,...
Arkansas Ex-Judge Sentenced in Insurance Fraud Case
Jun 12 2015 // A former Arkansas district judge convicted of drug charges has been sentenced in an unrelated mail fraud case involving American Indian artifacts. Bob Castleman, who was a judge in Pocahontas over a decade ago, has been...
Natural Gas Released as Pipeline Ruptures in Arkansas River
Jun 4 2015 // A two-mile section of the Arkansas River near Little Rock remained closed on June 3 following the rupture of a pipeline that released enough natural gas to fuel about 65 homes for a year. U.S. Coast Guard spokesman...
President Signs Disaster Declaration for Texas Counties as Claims Mount
Jun 1 2015 // A disaster declaration signed by Pres. Barak Obama will help citizens in Harris, Hays and Van Zandt counties in Texas as they begin to recover from violent storm systems that brought tornadoes, high winds and massive...
Farmers in Arkansas Expect Losses from Flooding
May 28 2015 // Farmers across Arkansas are still weathering a series of spring showers that have flooded fields, smothered crops and swept away cattle. Since March 1, between 12 to 18 inches of rain has fallen across the Arkansas River...
Arkansas Treasurer Settles Civil Rights/Disability Lawsuit
May 26 2015 // Arkansas Treasurer Settles Ex-Employee’s Civil Rights/Disability Lawsuit Arkansas’ treasurer has settled a federal lawsuit filed against him by a former employee when he served as the Saline County clerk. An...
Johnson & Johnson Will Pay $7.8M to Settle Arkansas Lawsuit
May 20 2015 // Court filings show pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $7.8 million to settle a lawsuit over how the company marketed an antipsychotic drug to Arkansas doctors. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette...
Whirlpool to Pay Arkansas Property Owners for Lost Value
May 18 2015 // Whirlpool has agreed to pay the owners of 49 properties in Arkansas that lost value after it was discovered that a former plant of the appliance-maker had leaked a hazardous chemical into the groundwater for decades. Fort...
Citizens of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, OK Anti-Discrimination Law
May 14 2015 // Voters in a northwest Arkansas town have upheld an expanded anti-discrimination ordinance passed by the City Council in February. Preliminary results show the Eureka Springs ordinance was ratified by a 579-231 vote in a...
Disasters Declared in Arkansas, Texas Following Severe Weather
May 13 2015 // Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has declared a state of disaster in counties hit in recent days by severe weather that’s included tornadoes, thunderstorms and heavy rains that brought flooding. Likewise, Arkansas Gov. Asa...
5 Dead After Twisters Hit Texas, Arkansas
May 12 2015 // Emergency responders on May 11 searched through wreckage in parts of the states of Texas and Arkansas after a line of tornadoes battered several small communities, killing at least five people, including a young couple...
Maumelle, Arkansas Settles Employee Sexual Harassment Case
May 7 2015 // A $15,000 settlement has been reached in a case between a central Arkansas city and two of its employees over accusations that City Clerk and Treasurer Joshua Clausen sexually harassed them. The payment approved by the...
Constellation Acquiring Medical Professional Liability Insurer Arkansas Mutual
May 6 2015 // Constellation, a mutual holding company, announced that Little Rock-based medical professional liability insurance provider, Arkansas Mutual Insurance Co., is joining its family of companies. Arkansas Mutual will be the...
Arkansas Workers’ Comp Rates to Drop
May 4 2015 // The Arkansas Insurance Department in mid-April announced a decrease in workers’ compensation rates that will become effective July 1. The overall loss cost decrease in the voluntary market is 2.1 percent, while the...
Insurer Files Suit against Follower of Imprisoned Arkansas Evangelist
Apr 27 2015 // An insurance company is asking a Pulaski County, Ark., judge to declare it has no responsibility to pay court judgments against the homeowners policy of a follower of imprisoned evangelist Tony Alamo. The judgments are...
Exxon Mobil Subsidiaries to Pay Nearly $5M for Arkansas Pipeline Spill
Apr 24 2015 // Two subsidiaries of Exxon Mobil must pay almost $5 million in penalties for state and federal violations involving the 2013 Mayflower oil spill in central Arkansas, according to a consent decree filed in federal court on...
CNA Appoints Cox as Arkansas, Oklahoma Branch VP
Apr 22 2015 // Chicago-based CNA announced it has appointed John Cox as vice president of the Arkansas and Oklahoma branches. Cox will be responsible for leading both branch teams to serve the diverse needs of CNA’s customers. He...
Arkansas Plaintiffs Want Order Dismissing Exxon Oil-Spill Lawsuit Vacated
Apr 17 2015 // Plaintiffs are urging a federal judge in Little Rock, Ark., to vacate his order dismissing a class-action lawsuit against Exxon Mobil, claiming the oil giant suppressed evidence in the case. The lawsuit, filed over a 2013...
